Insight

Insights, analysis and commentary mostly on current happenings in India and occasionally geopolitics

Essays

No Barkha Dutt, You Lost the Moral Authority to Criticise Kapil Sibal Long Ago

No Barkha Dutt, You Lost the Moral Authority to Criticise Kapil Sibal Long Ago

Barkha Dutt lost the moral authority to criticise Kapil Sibal long ago when she abandoned all journalistic norms.

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Well Done Jay Amit Shah!

Well Done Jay Amit Shah!

The bugle for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls has been sounded by an uncanny candidate: the Far Left viper-pit named The Wire, which suddenly woke up to what it calls “the golden touch” of Jay Amit Shah, son of BJP President, Amit Shah. The story, incorrectly filed under the

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Siddaramaiah’s Anti-Superstition Bill Must First Ban Crows

Siddaramaiah’s Anti-Superstition Bill Must First Ban Crows

I just got back to Bengalooru only to find it reeling under the twin-sledgehammers of unending downpour and Siddaramaiah. Like me, the gentle people of Bangalore and Karnataka, far from complaining, actually welcome the rains. If sunlight is the best disinfectant, rain is the best visual broadcaster. Of lifting

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Profiling Narendra Modi’s Critics

Profiling Narendra Modi’s Critics

Note: This is a guest article by Sri Narasimha. India’s honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the person people love to hate. Of course he does have his supporters and his sympathisers across all walks of life and demographics, particularly in non-urban places but the folks who own

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Kamal Hassan Seeks Arvind Kejriwal’s Help to Wear a Crown of Thorns

Kamal Hassan Seeks Arvind Kejriwal’s Help to Wear a Crown of Thorns

Kamal Haasan and Arvind Kejriwal should get married. Both are accomplished practitioners of the same profession of playacting. The former has honed his onscreen acting skills over years while the latter is a natural. And now in a bizarre political reality show of sorts, the former is learning from the

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The Chronicles of a Lapsed Marxist

The Chronicles of a Lapsed Marxist

In response to the Karnataka state unit of the BJP Yuva Morcha, which sent him a legal notice, alleged historian Ramachandra Guha reposted a link to his June 2017 article titled “Eight threats to free expression in India that lay the ground for attacks on Taslima, Bhansali.” We can begin

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The Gauri Lankesh Truth the Mainstream Media Won't Tell You

The Gauri Lankesh Truth the Mainstream Media Won't Tell You

For the longest time, the infection of Maoist terrorism in Karnataka's Western Ghats did not receive the attention it deserved. Gauri Lankesh had been its most committed supporter.

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The Gauri Lankesh Saga: Erasing the Line between Kannada Literature and Politics

The Gauri Lankesh Saga: Erasing the Line between Kannada Literature and Politics

Gauri Lankesh’s Naxal Roots: The Dark Legacy of Navya, Lankesh Patrike, and Kannada Tabloid Filth

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The Murder of Gauri Lankesh: Lawlessness in Karnataka

The Murder of Gauri Lankesh: Lawlessness in Karnataka

Commentary on the controversial death of the Maoist journalist Gauri Lankesh

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CNN and NDTV and the Global Left-Liberal Media: Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing

CNN and NDTV and the Global Left-Liberal Media: Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing

Circa May 2014, India and circa November 2016, USA were notable for two things: one, the collapse of the hegemony of a global Left-Liberal world order premised on fake narratives, manufactured victimhood, dividing societies against themselves, all of which was enabled by a seemingly ironclad stranglehold over information, and

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